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Hello All!

     Let's say I have three completed projects, and I want to render them all as one video, one after the other.  Is this possible?  If not, how else could I achieve the same result?

                                                                                                           Thanks much!
                                                                                                            Bill Carey
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To my knowledge, the only possible way to achieve this is to render each of them individually then mix all resulted videos using a video editor.
The drawback is the final video is re-encoded, so there will be a more or less visible drop in video quality.
However, in case you only want to append your clips, nothing else, without re-eencoding, if they are identical in framerate and size, you can use MKVToolnix (windows freeware) which accept as input for appending video clips if they are identical in such parameters.

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If you render to Sequence Image PNG or uncompressed AVI (requires a lot of free hard drive space) then you won't lose quality when you edit and reencode them in your video editing software.

                                                                

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Thanks!
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Thanks All!

     Ended up downloading and using "MP4 Joiner" & "MP4 Splitter", nice little free programs by Alex Thuering.  I don't notice any quality loss, and this gives me new options when I'm making iClone animations.

                                                                             Bill Carey



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